Morning Kickaround

Questions, questions.....

*Whatever happened to the USSF's probe of Cuauhtemoc Blanco's behavior during the Open Cup quarterfinal vs. DCU?

Apparently, two individuals who will be involved in the review have been on vacation. Rest assured, the situation is far from over. Blanco's apology, issued in a prepared statement last week, was clearly a peace offering and an attempt to soften the blow of what could be a considerable penalty. Once the USSF makes its ruling, MLS might act. True, the Open Cup was not an MLS event. But Blanco is a league employee and subject to additional sanctions. From what I've been told, the videotapes widely viewed in the days after the game tell only part of the story and that other evidence might be introduced. Stay tuned.....

*At whom was Houston's Bobby Boswell shooting an invisible gun in celebration after scoring at RFK on Saturday night (and was he pleased with the recent Supreme Court ruling about D.C. gun laws)?

"Brad Davis and I play Big Buck Hunter [an arcade game], so that's our sign. We always play when we get a chance. He was supposed to be a deer, but he didn't want to do the deer, didn't want to fall down."

*What's going on with Honduran midfielder Carlos Will Mejia and his reported loan to D.C. United?

Thanks for the update on Blanco. We were sitting behind the Chicago bench. I can tell you one thing, his minion did all his carrying, picking up, and putting on and down all game. He does nothing. I am glad this will not be white washed. Do you know if they are looking at the tackle on Jaime? Also, any news about a goalie for us? Is Thorpe just too new to use? He couldn't be worse than Wells. Please update.

Well its pretty clear that at least one team has a worse goal keeping situation. Losing two keepers in two weeks? Poor Chivas USA. This won't help their attendance woes. Superliga=ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I didn't see anything about this in the postgame, but is Gonzalo Martinez healthy? He looked like he did something to his hamstring stretching for a ball late in the game on Saturday. Of course we had exhausted all our subs by that point, so he was left to move gingerly about. Tuesday night counts, so it'd be nice to have him healthy out there.

The GK who was injured is from Chivas de Guadalajara and he was injured in the Superliga game against Atalante.

By the way, that injury was bad, and you just knew it was broken before the replays were even shown. I hope Chivas has now ruled themselves out of any further Superliga competition, and I am very thankful that DC was able to get out of it with no major injuries.

Chivas fans proved themselves among North America's best at that game too. They were in awesome form.